I did a bit more work on the textures and have added a barrier to stop people falling off the cliff.

I have also been working on the lights - what a headache! At the moment I am having problems with the shadows - I thought that using a directional light would give me parrallel shadows, but as you can see, I must be doing something wrong.

I also added some artificial fog - I spent the last couple of days messing around with the settings without much luck - when i zoom into my scene and render, things start to look very murky as you can see in the next picture.

nice touches arran - is the wall like a forcefield as it'd be cool to have it translucent and maybe glowing a little

the fog closeup actually looks quite cool and gives the scene a different mood. Would a play on the depth of field give the objects further back a murkier blurry look and would that look good? Maybe not but just a thought

arran it's coming along nicely. I agree with T1ck about the fog creating a different mood with the camera zoomed in. From a distance the scene looks rather idyllic but the narrow shot makes it look like it's in the middle of a dust storm.

yeah, i've actually been to Tunisia and could have taken a trip out to where they filmed star wars, but I think we ended up sitting on the beach instead.

I haven't done too much over the last few days - I imported the last few details, such as the tree roots and the hot tub (which you can't really see, but is important nonetheless ) and I also sorted out the shadows and added a few backlights.

The atmospheric fog is still giving me a headache, but I seem to have it working a bit better. I have also increased the glow on the forcefield, though I am still not sure about that.

I think this image will be fairly close to my final entry. I am also planning to include a few close up shots as well.

I just wanted to say thanks to everyone else who participated and also a big thank you to the Simply Maya moderators for running these challenges. It has been really helpful to take part and I look forward to the next one.

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